[CentOS] bad blocks showing up

[Ted Kaczmarek]

On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 16:44 -0400, Chris Mauritz wrote:
> Jerry Geis wrote:
> 
> > I am getting a few bad sector messages in my /var/log/messages.
> >
> > I have read where an "fsck -c -c /dev/hda" may be what I need.
> >
> > Before I go doing such things I am looking for confirmation that
> > that is what I should do. Anyone please comment on how to
> > tell linux to not use sectors in my disk. This is stright IDE no
> > raid not nothing at this point /dev/hda is all.
> >
> 
> If it was my system, that is the sign to shut down all non-critical 
> services and do an immediate full backup of the suspect volume.  When 
> the backup is done, replace the volume with a fresh disk and restore the 
> data.  You're just asking to get kicked in the hiney by trying to 
> manually mark the bad blocks and "write around them".  Disks are cheap.  
> Cobbling together destroyed data isn't.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> _______________________________________________
I have seen what I consider an exorbitant amount of ide drive failure
lately, granted most of these are lower grade machines, but the
percentage of drives failing seems to be much higher than I recall. Is
their possibly something with ext3 that stresses drives more?
Maybe the location of the journaling info? 

Regards,
Ted